Location Greater Chicago Area, United States, North America Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
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D. Cameron Findlay is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Medtronic, Inc., the world’s largest medical device company. In this role, Cam leads Medtronic’s 120-lawyer global legal department and its government affairs department and serves as a member of the Executive Committee.
Cam joined Medtronic after serving for six years
as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Aon Corporation, the world’s largest insurance broker, with nearly $10 billion in annual revenues and 50,000 employees in 120 countries around the world. Before that, he served as Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Labor in the administration of President George W. Bush. In that role, he was the number-two official and chief operating officer of a cabinet department with a $70 billion budget and nearly 20,000 employees. Before that, he was a partner at the international law firm of Sidley Austin LLP. Cam also has served in the White House in the administration of President George H.W. Bush as Deputy Assistant to the President and Counselor to the Chief of Staff, as a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Antonin Scalia, and as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for Judge Stephen Williams.
Cam received his bachelor’s degree in political science summa cum laude from Northwestern University in 1982. He received a master’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics with First Class Honors from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, in 1984. He received his juris doctor magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1987.
Cam has been active in numerous philanthropic and professional organizations. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University and on the Executive Committee of that Board, and on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Orchestra. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.
